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Faith For Exiles
By David Kinnaman & Mark Matlock

Discover What’s Working and Find Hope

Negative perceptions. Church dropouts. Prodigals and nomads.  It’s easy to get discouraged by all that’s going wrong when it comes to Christianity and the emerging generation.  Yet what’s going right? In fact, signs of hope are springing up all around.  In Faith for Exiles, the author of unChristian and You Lost Me unveils major new Barna research that uncovers what’s working (more…)

Intended for Evil
A Survivor’s Story of Love, Faith, and Courage in the Cambodian Killing Fields
By Les Sillars

A True Story of Surviving Genocide and Forging a New Life

When the Khmer Rouge took Phnom Penh in 1975, new Christian Radha Manickam and his family were among two million people driven out of the city.  Over the next four years, 1.7 million people–including most of Radha’s family – would perish due to starvation, disease, and horrifying violence.  His new faith (more…)

Indispensable
By David P. Cassidy

The Christian faith involves many different elements: a breathtaking sacrifice, an unshakable hope, a daily fight – and more.  Each is critical to our salvation and essential to the shape and purpose of our daily lives.  Yet some have become so familiar to us that we miss their importance .. and others may not feel familiar at all.

Pastor David Cassidy’s engaging look at these essentials of the Christian faith helps us to understand their disruptive power in a dark world.  (more…)

The Promise is His Presence
By Glenna Marshall

What if you didn’t have to go looking for God’s presence?  What if you could enjoy it all the time?

Glenna Marshall’s awakening to God’s presence began in the depths of winter.  Rereading her journal, she realized that for six months she’d been cataloging all the ways God had abandoned her.  What if that . . . wasn’t true?  Interweaving her own story of faith and doubt amid suffering, Glenna traces the (more…)